Quotes by : Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said"Every....

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and....

It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how....

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong....

What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening....

In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the....

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor.....

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath....